On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 10:03 AM, Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has the following lintian warnings: > W: mined: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/man1/mined.1.gz 294: > warning: `VL' not defined > W: mined: executable-not-elf-or-script ./usr/share/mined/xinitrc.mined > W: mined: copyright-without-copyright-notice > W: mined: menu-item-uses-apps-section /usr/share/menu/mined:2 > > Please fix those. >
Hi, i mailed to the actual uploader [0] of mined about the copyright holder and i got this response: -- Hello Mauro, originally (i.e. ~ 20 years ago), we took mined from the Minix operating system which was a free academic project, and the mined.doc file did not mention a copyright. So no, I do not think the original author could claim a copyright. Also he is not reachable on the net, I had already tried that a few years ago. While talking about the Debian package, it has not been updated for 3 years meanwhile (I'm at version 2000.14), although I sent email notices to the packager maintainer occasionally. Would you kindly take on the task of updating the package? Can I include you in my update version mailing list? Thanks a lot, kind regards, Thomas Wolff -- So basically, besides fixing these lintian warnings, i'll do a package of the newest version (though im not sure about adopting it, because im not sure if i could fix eventual bugs (im not a really good C programmer)) But about the copyright with no copyright, i got no answer, what should i do in this case? [0] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Regards, Mauro -- JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK---- Version: 3.12 GCM/O d->dpu$ s-:- a-->a+++$ C+++ LU P+ L++ E W+++ N !o K w O !M !V PS+ PE Y+ PGP t 5– X R tv++ b- DI D++ G+ e h!>h-- r>r+++ y+ ----END GEEK CODE BLOCK----
